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can someone tell me what responseabilty and changes a company with atleast 50 employees has to do with regard to arc flash to protect the employee working with electric? anything with osha? thanks for the help
 
Wow, thats a 16 hour long answer, you have a lot to do my friend. Here is a checklist of items you need to complete.

Where are you located?
 
mickeyrench said:
zog, is all this a must under osha? or is it just a guidline? i have no idea.
thak you
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mostly OSHA requirements. Are you saying you have 50+ employees and no electrical safety program? I wouldnt take that risk even if I only had 1 employee.
 
mickeyrench said:
zog, is all this a must under osha? or is it just a guidline? i have no idea.
thak you
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Thats a checklist from my NFPA 70E compliance program. OSHA currently enforces compliance of the 70E via its general duty clause. Some of the items are from OSHA requirements, but all are enforceable.
 
Keep in mind that NFPA only requires labeling but does not require listing the requirements for the PPE required to operate the equipment. To be safe you need to do an arc flash calculation for each peiece of equipment requiring a label. The PPE requirement will let an employee know the type of PPE is required if operating the electrical equipment. Many times operation of the equipment may be "prohibited" after doing a calculation, meaning that there is no PPE available to protect an operator because the arc fault is too large. It is not just the level of the fault but the clearing time of the upstream OC protective device.
 
bsh said:
Keep in mind that NFPA only requires labeling but does not require listing the requirements for the PPE required to operate the equipment.
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Good points but this will be a requirement in the 2009 70E due out in October 2008, so why not do it right now?
 
first thanks to everyone for the great info. my situation is , i just got a job with a company as a maintenance electrician and there is not any type of electrical safety program there, when i talk to the other electricians about the arc fault labeling type of things they all said that they never heard of such a thing. being the new guy i have to be careful what i say. working here just 2 weeks and i had one near miss because of poor safety training.

thanks again for all responses.
 
mickeyrench said:
. . . i had one near miss because of poor safety training.
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You might want to consider minding another place to work before you are carried out in a horizontal position, breathing optional.:roll:
 
Get out! Get out fast, and dont look back! What may end up happening if someone dosent get hurt first, the other maintenance may give you are hard time for trying to "change" things around their.
 
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